Lion of Venice
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title:
Lion of Venice
text:
The Lion of Venice is an ancient bronze sculpture of a winged lion in the Piazza San Marco of Venice, Italy, which came to symbolize the city – as well as one of its patron saints, St Mark – after its arrival there in the 12th century. The sculpture surmounts one of two large granite columns in the Square, thought to have been erected between 1172 and 1177 during the reign of Doge Sebastiano Ziani or about 1268, bearing ancient symbols of the two patron saints of Venice. The Lion sculpture has h
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Statue
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_Venice
date created:
2012-12-05T18:15:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T19:51:30Z
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